A Life in the Theatre - 1992 - Off-Broadway Articles Page 2

BroadwayWorld has your official fall 2026 Off-Broadway preview, a complete guide to everything opening Off-Broadway! See West End transfers, stars in play revivals, multiple world premieres and more.

Bastrop Opera House’s NEWSIES shines with exceptional young talent, strong vocals, athletic choreography, and heartfelt performances, bringing humor, energy, and plenty of charm to this intimate stage.

Black Theatre Troupe's THE EXONERATED is compelling and provocative. A production of real craft in service of real urgency: beautifully directed, powerfully acted, and unwilling to let its audience leave comfortable.

Ashland New Plays Festival has selected The Caelumids, Netta and Ru, persian girl play and Threshold for its 2026 Fall Festival, running October 14-18 at Southern Oregon University.

Next week, 54 Below will present some of the brightest stars from Broadway, cabaret, jazz, and beyond, including Write Out Loud, Michael Cerveris and more. 

Disney’s Newsies does not merely seize the day. It dances on it, vaults over it and occasionally executes a backflip before the day knows what struck it. It takes an 1899 historical event as a jumping off place and imagines the history as it might have been retold in a 1930’s Busby Berkeley movie substituting teenage newsboys for the 1930s dancing girls.  The show gets high marks for entertainment.

Dirty Three announced ULTERIOR MOTIVES, a collection of early demos and live radio recordings, and shared the track "Better Go Home Now" ahead of a UK and EU tour.

MJ THE MICHAEL JACKSON MUSICAL will open in Singapore for a limited season at Sands Theatre, Marina Bay Sands, producers Lia Vollack, John Branca, Michael Cassel and Base Entertainment Asia announced.

Theatre has long history of cultural exchange between the cities of New York and London. Every season, new productions make it to Broadway and off-Broadway after starting in the West End and vice versa. But what of all of the Broadway shows that have originated in countries beyond England? Productions originating in other foreign countries happen far less frequently but have resulted in some fascinating moments of history on Broadway.

Emmy-winning talk show host, comedian, actress, and best-selling author Sherri Shepherd will join the company of Aladdin on Broadway as the Genie for a limited run. Learn more here.

New York Theatre Ballet will open its first season under Antonia Franceschi with performances at Danspace Project, featuring UNCAGED+, the American premiere of HOMAGE, and SHORT RIDE OUT.

MJ THE MICHAEL JACKSON MUSICAL will begin its International Asian Tour in Tokyo, marking the four-time Tony Award-winning production's premiere in Japan.

Jim Walsh, a two-time Tony Award-winning producer whose Broadway career spanned nearly four decades, has died. His credits include I'M NOT RAPPAPORT and THE HEIDI CHRONICLES.

Bill Engvall will perform at Denver's Bellco Theatre in a benefit show supporting The Zarlengo Foundation, which funds programs for learning disabled children in Colorado.

54 Below will host a lineup of performers including Britani Bateman with Lagoona Bloo, Claybourne Elder, Charles Busch, Ute Lemper, Linda Eder, Orfeh, and Jeanna de Waal, alongside a Frank Sinatra tribute concert and other cabaret acts.

The Old Globe has announced its 2027 season, featuring Jay O. Sanders as King Lear, the world premiere of August Rush: A New Musical, new plays by Gordon Greenberg and Steve Rosen, Susan Yassky and JuCoby Johnson, and more.

CAPA will mark the Palace Theatre's centennial in downtown Columbus with a free community birthday celebration, a Halloween event, a Ray Charles tribute concert and a regional debut of Pirates! The Penzance Musical.

San Francisco Opera will present Thea Musgrave's MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS in a new co-production with English National Opera, starring Heidi Stober in the title role.

Global icon and humanitarian, Dolly Parton, known to the world as a beloved singer, songwriter, philanthropist, actress, playwright, and author died peacefully today in Nashville, Tennessee. She was 80 years old.

The Kravis Center in West Palm Beach will open ticket sales for touring productions of DIRTY DANCING: THE MUSICAL, MONTY PYTHON'S SPAMALOT and DR. SEUSS' HOW THE GRINCH STOLE CHRISTMAS! THE MUSICAL.

SUGAR released a 20-minute documentary on the band's history as the U.S. leg of the Love You Even Still world tour opens August 11 in Denver with several sold-out dates to follow.

Lundstrum Performing Arts will present SISTER ACT, the musical comedy based on the 1992 film, at its North Minneapolis location, featuring student performers including scholarship-bound lead Aniyah Warren.

NEWSIES is a big, joyful, high-energy dance spectacular at the theatre with a message about how to successfully stand up to corporate greed. Recommended for all.

PNC Broadway in Columbus will present DEATH BECOMES HER, the Tony Award-winning musical comedy, at the Ohio Theatre. Tickets start at $52.28 and are available via BroadwayInColumbus.com.

A new episode of the GLAAD-nominated documentary series FINDING FIRE ISLAND examines how the HIV/AIDS crisis united Broadway and Fire Island Pines, with reflections from Jerry Mitchell, Billy Porter, and others. Check out the video here.